Weekly Wrap-up: Google Shopping Festival, iTunes India Entry & more…

We are now well into December and I am sure everyone one of you would be eagerly waiting for 2013. We will be doing number of “Best of 2012” articles this week onwards, which I am sure you will enjoy. In the meanwhile, let us look at some of the buzzing posts that were published on Trak.in last week.

Mast Kalandar, a North Indian Fast food chain raised series C funding Venture Funding of Rs. 33 Crore rupees. The round was led Helion Venture Partners and was co-invested by Footprint Ventures.

Please join this innovative crowd funded cause – A road in remote North-East India is being built on donations and local community help without any Government support. Any Individual can Sponsor a small stretch of road and get it named after you!

So this is a question, which we have still not got any answers to – Are Mobiles harmful for your health or not? Here is a infographic that lists down research findings that have been done till date on this subject. They create more confusion, rather than coming to a conclusion.

This is something you should really watch out for – Google’s online shopping festival. Although, just an aggregator, Google doing it, itself gives it lot of weightage. Mark your calendars for 12-12-12.

TRAI has come up with an important announcement – They have published minimum quality guidelines which every wireless data service provider should offer to its users. No more slow internet data speeds!

Arun Prabhudesai is founder / chief editor at trak.in. He jumped the Entrepreneurship bandwagon in early 2008 after a long 13 year stint in I.T Industry. You can follow him on twitter @trakin and Facebook.Arun’s Google+ Profile